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Bookmark this pageBlind Flight (2003)
Director: John Furse
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From Time Out Film Guide
In 1986, Irish Republican teacher Brian Keenan and English journalist John McCarthy were kidnapped in Beirut and incarcerated in appallingly cramped conditions until August 1990. Chiefly adapted from Keenan's diary, An Evil Cradling, the film rarely strays from the grimy walls of the captives' 'home', and consequently captures, in reality-TV detail, the claustrophobic nightmare the pair were forced to endure in the name of someone else's politics. Hart (Keenan) and Roach (McCarthy) deliver performances of such emotional depth you can almost taste their fear.Author: DA
Cast & crew
Director: John Furse
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Cast: Ian Hart, Linus Roache, Karim Koleilat, Nayef Rashed, Bassem Breish, Dany El Khoury, Vic Tablian, Mohammed Chamas, Ziad Lahoud, Fadi Sakr, Áine Ni Mhuiri, Patrick Rocks full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 96 mins
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